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<h1>Potential<a class="headerlink" href="#potential" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<dt id="atomman.lammps.Potential">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">atomman.lammps.</code><code class="sig-name descname">Potential</code><a class="headerlink" href="#atomman.lammps.Potential" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Class initializer switch for PotentialLAMMPS or PotentialLAMMPSKIM objects.</p>
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<dt class="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
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<li><p><strong>model</strong> (<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.9)"><em>str</em></a><em> or </em><em>file-like object</em>) – A JSON/XML data model containing a potential-LAMMPS or a
potential-LAMMPS-KIM branch.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>name</strong> (<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.9)"><em>str</em></a><em>, </em><em>optional</em>) – The record name to use.  If not given, this will be set to the
potential’s id.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>pot_dir</strong> (<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.9)"><em>str</em></a><em>, </em><em>optional</em>) – The path to a directory containing any artifacts associated with
the potential.  Default value is None, which assumes any required
files will be in the working directory when LAMMPS is executed.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>kim_id</strong> (<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.9)"><em>str</em></a><em>, </em><em>optional</em>) – The full KIM model id indicating the version of a KIM model to use.
If not given, then the newest known version will be used.</p></li>
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<dt class="field-even">Returns</dt>
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<li><p><em>potentials.record.PotentialLAMMPS</em> – Returned if model contains potential-LAMMPS content.</p></li>
<li><p><em>potentials.record.PotentialLAMMPSKIM</em> – Returned if model contains potential-LAMMPS-KIM content.</p></li>
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